What comics are you reading lately? Every month, WWAC contributors highlight a few comics we think you’ll love. This month’s picks span the gamut of themes and styles, from a wildly popular Webtoon to indie diary comics. Let us know on Twitter about your current favorite comics!
REVIEW: The Art of the Darkness: I Have No Mouth and I Must Screw
2007’s The Art of the Darkness (I’m looking at the 2017 ten year reissue) is one of the coffee table burlesque publications you’re likely familiar with—most local comic shops, or comics sections of chain bookshops, will have at least one Frank Cho Heteronomicon on offer and/or display, for example. Many superhero artists who gain acclaim…
[Exclusive] Get Ready for the KUTE Crew!
Launching August 4th from the creators of The Evil Life come the cutest underwater marsupial badasses: the KUTE Crew. The “Koala Underwater Tactical Elite are a bunch of outrageous marsupials that scoot around the ocean in their sub, the Tangerine Marine, as they go up against their weird foes in the Squid Squad.”
Leaning on the Closet Door: X-Men+Fantastic Four and Trans Allegory
Content Warnings: Suicide, Depression, Dysphoria, Transphobia, Gaslighting, Anti-Trans Legislation, Murder
REVIEW: Giant-Size X-Men: Magneto #1: “Isle, Magneto”
After a long, unexpected wait, Giant-Size X-Men: Magneto #1 is here, and it’s an issue so big we needed two reviewers to cover it! Why does the Master of Magnetism want to procure an island, and what will he do to get it? Read on, as Kayleigh Hearn and Dani Kinney follow Magneto into the…
For a Valiant Cinematic Universe to Succeed, They Need a Little Faith (Herbert)
The superhero tide isn’t ebbing any time soon. Year after year, we see new adaptations of comic book properties arrive on every screen we have access to. From familiar names to relative unknowns, viewers are being bombarded by some new hyper-powered being or other. Valiant entered the game this March with their live-action adaptation of…
Titan Comics Pubwatch: July 2020
This is a very different summer, but one constant remains: comics to provide us distraction and escape. Let’s see what Titan has to distract us from the real world.
REVIEW: What We Don’t Talk About Is an Unflinching Look at Racism in Intimate Spaces
In What We Don’t Talk About, Farai and Adam plan a trip to see Adam’s parents for the first time in their two-year relationship. While Farai is excited at the prospect of meeting her partner’s family, Adam is out of sorts about the trip. From the moment his parents open the door, we get an…
REVIEW: John Constantine: Hellblazer #7: The Only Time You’ll Read “Gamete Package” in a Comic
John Constantine: Hellblazer has taken us through many seedy aspects of England, but in issue #7, the beginning of a new arc, we go somewhere new: Billingsgate Market, a fish market in Canary Wharf.
Vault Comics Pubwatch: July 2020
Hopping straight into the news with the Vault Comics Pubwatch for July 2020, it’s a bit unpleasant to start:
INTERVIEW: Planet DIVOC-91 Tackles COVID-19 Through Webtoon
COVID-19 is hitting all of us hard in many different ways. As the medical and scientific community struggle to decipher the many moving parts of the disease, so too does the rest of the world struggle to navigate the new and dangerous world we live in, haunted by an invisible enemy. It’s all very frightening…